Upcoming Workshops: Canning, Dehydrating, and Seed Saving

Burnaby Food First is pleased to present three more FREE community workshops!

Whole Fruit Canning: The Joy of Sweet and Sour Fruit

Wednesday, August 21

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Cranberry Commons (4272 Albert Street / Burnaby - map)

Credit: Sofi Martinez

Learn with Karen DarWoon how to can local, fresh whole fruit in a sweet and sour style. You get a jar to take home with you! This will be a hands-on workshop.

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Karen DarWoon is a personal chef and former Board Member of the Richmond Sharing Farm Society who is passionate about urban farming and the fun of food!

Art of Drying and Storing Foods

Tuesday, September 10

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tommy Douglas Library (7311 Kingsway / Burnaby - map)

Learn how to prepare and store dried fruits and vegetables, as well as how to make your own fruit leather! This will be a demonstration-style workshop.

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Andrea Potter is a Red Seal Chef and a Registered Holistic Nutritionist. She teaches whole-foods cooking classes and also offers nutrition counselling. She is passionate about the benefits of whole, local and slow foods. For more information on Andrea Potter, visit her website: http://wholefoodscooking.ca/.

Burnaby Seed Saving Workshop

Tuesday, September 17

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Tommy Douglas Library (7311 Kingsway / Burnaby - map)

Learn the basics of how to start saving and storing seeds. Saving seeds saves you money, helps biodiversity, and lets you keep growing the variety of plants that you know work for you.

If you have seeds you have saved, bring them to share and trade! This will be a demonstration-style workshop.

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Cylia Taryse Wong, who helped create the Cedar Cottage Seedsaving Collective (a seed bank) in 2011, is a Gaia College organic master gardener, certified permaculturist, and member of two Vancouver community gardens and Copley Commons Orchard. She brings her hands-on knowledge and experience with community gardening and seed saving to this workshop.

Whole Fruit Canning and Summer Jam Making Workshops

Burnaby Food First is pleased to present two more FREE community workshops!

Whole Fruit Canning - The Joy of Sweet and Sour Fruit

Monday, July 29

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Newcomers Centre (7009 Kingsway / Burnaby - map)

Learn with Karen DarWoon how to can local, fresh whole fruit (in a sweet and sour style). You get a jar of jam to take home with you! This will be a hands-on workshop.

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Karen DarWoon is a personal chef and Board Member of the Richmond Sharing Farm Society, who is passionate about urban farming and the fun of food!

Summer Jam Making - Raspberry Jam

Tuesday, August 6

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cameron Rec Centre (9523 Cameron Street / Burnaby - map)

Learn how to make your own jam. Janice Bobic will show us how to use summer raspberries to make jam. You get a jar of jam to take home with you! This will be a hands-on workshop.


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Janice Bobic is a Burnaby bee expert who also owns and operates My Father's Garden, a Burnaby-based small business focusing on local artisan food production.

Correction: The original post on July 10, 2013 for the Summer Jam Making workshop said that we will be making blueberry jam. This has been changed to raspberry jam, not blueberry.

Workshop Review: Modern Pantry Canning and Canning for Life Workshops

Thank you all for coming out to the Modern Pantry Canning (August 13) and Canning for Life (August 8) workshops the past two weeks!

Spoils of the evening: sweet Virginia pepper relish from Monday night.
Credit: Sofi Martinez

Both received great reviews and couldn't have been as successful without your interest and participation.

Chef Alice Macpherson in action at the Canning for Life workshop.
Credit: Sofi Martinez

Attendees at Canning for Life made and brought home blueberry jam and blueberry chutney, while those at the workshop on Monday got hands-on with plum sauce and sweet Virginia pepper relish.

Chef Karen Dar Woon caught in the middle of a demonstration.
Credit: Sofi Martinez

Looking for a way to ring in autumn? There are still four more workshops left in the Summer Workshop Series, so make sure to stop by.

If you missed either of the workshops in this post, there will be repeat runs on August 20 (Canning for Life) and on August 27 (Modern Pantry Canning). Spots go quickly, so register early to get in on the fun!

For more information on the remaining workshops, please visit the Summer Workshop Series listing for details and registration information.


For copies of the recipes used in this workshop, please visit our Recipe page:

Blueberry Chutney
Homemade Jam

Modern Pantry Workshop: Spots Still Left!

There are still a few spots available in our upcoming workshop:

Modern Pantry Canning
Learn how to make fresh, local relishes and salsas

August 13 / 5-7pm
Newcomers Centre / 7009 Kingsway (map)

Eat local and save money by learning how to preserve fruit and vegetables in season with Chef Karen Dar Woon. Using produce from local farms, participants will make and take home: Ginger Plum Sauce, Sweet Virginia Pickle Relish!

Please bring along a paring knife, small cutting board, and a bag for taking home your preserves; jars will be warm and need to be protected. Hair should be tied back. Recipe sheets will be available to take home. 

To register, send us an email or call (604) 570-3623.

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Workshop Review:
Modern Pantry Canning

Summer Workshop Series

Burnaby Food First is pleased to announce our next workshop series! Each workshop has two dates to choose from. All workshops are FREE.

Canning for Life
Learn the basics of jams and chutneys

August 8 / 5-7pm
Newcomers Centre / 7009 Kingsway (map)

August 20 / 6-8pm
Cranberry Commons / 4272 Albert St. (map) 

Join chef Alice Macpherson to learn about the benefits of canning your own food, including about what's going into your food and what you are feeding your family, as well as the cost savings of buying produce fresh and in season. Join us and make your own batch of jam and another of chutney for yourself and your family. All materials are provided, and participants take home two 250 ml (8 oz.) jars of finished product.

Modern Pantry Canning
Learn how to make fresh, local relishes and salsas

August 13 / 5-7pm
Newcomers Centre / 7009 Kingsway (map)

August 27 / 1-3pm
Cranberry Commons / 4272 Albert St. (map) 

Eat local and save money by learning how to preserve fruit and vegetables in season with Chef Karen Dar Woon. Using produce from local farms, participants will make and take home Ginger Plum Sauce, Sweet Virginia Pickle Relish. This workshop requires very basic kitchen skills.

Canning for the Sweet Life
Learn how to can local fresh whole fruits

September 5 / 5-7pm
Byrne Creek Secondary / 7777 18th St. (map)
Topic: Spiced Pears

September 6 / 5-7pm
Cranberry Commons / 4272 Albert St. (map)
Topic: Apple Butter

As the kids head back to school, delicious local apples and pears from some of BC’s finest organic producers head to market. Come learn how to store the bounty, with Chef Antonietta Gesualdi of Foodwisdom, as she demonstrates how to make spiced pears and apple butter. Either of these will make for a great treat in the school lunch box in February.

Please help us spread the word to your friends!

Spaces are limited. Register now by emailing us or by calling (604) 570-3623. When registering, please tell us the name and date of the workshop you are interested in, the name(s) of who will be attending, and provide a contact phone number or email address.

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See you at the workshops!